It's been snowing!

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It's been snowing!

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Some photos of the mini in the snow yesterday here in New Zealand.

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Awesome ;) Graeme send me some pictures from snowy NZ yesterday too.

looks like your Mini is proper "dressed" up (tyres) for the occation 8-)

nothing beats a Mini, with the correct tyres, and some snow - enjoy.
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And not just a bit of snow either!

Looks like fun :lol:
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Fantastic! That does look like fun :D Good job you've got the right tyres.

I'm just listening to the radio and they were talking about the unusual weather in NZ - in some areas it's the first snow for 40 years apparently?!
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Great pictures!

Had unbelievable fun in my Mini in the snow last year...mud/gravel tyres worked a treat!
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I always found if you have trouble going forward in the snow - go backwards, weight transference and all that stuff, better grip - honest guv, worked for me :D
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Chris64 wrote:
I'm just listening to the radio and they were talking about the unusual weather in NZ - in some areas it's the first snow for 40 years apparently?!

Its not just NZ, that has unusual weather,
the last flood here in DK (6 weeks ago) cost more than 1.3 Billion kroner (Copenhagen alone), and sunday we were hit again -
http://gonews.dk.msn.com/indland/galler ... 487&page=5

summer is now officially cancelled here in DK.
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Summer? What summer? Haven't seen much of the sun lately here either. No extreme floods (although various places did suffer from floods). At least sufficient rain to cancel what was getting a very serious candidate here for driest year since measurements started. That is, until about June (Beaulieu). Now we are more close to the wettest summer ever. Nevertheless, not as spectectular as snow in NZ! Have fun!!
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The pics look great James.

I had to use one of my other vehicles but it handled the conditions well.

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Great pics, just looking at the weather maps, its coming my way! :(
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Mini4Ever wrote:No extreme floods (although various places did suffer from floods).
I'm afraid I was too early with saying that. Three people died at a music festival today in a nearby Belgium city plus at least 70 were injured due to extreme thunder showers. And my roof started leaking quite badly.
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Mini4Ever wrote:
Mini4Ever wrote:No extreme floods (although various places did suffer from floods).
I'm afraid I was too early with saying that. Three people died at a music festival today in a nearby Belgium city plus at least 70 were injured due to extreme thunder showers. And my roof started leaking quite badly.
sorry to hear :( sounds like a bad one :shock:

both times we were hit, did it happen at night, maybe that was a good thing?
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Nice photos James. I love that mini!

Al, thats cheating
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I was caught in this lot the other day, I think it's safe to say that summer has been officially :roll: this year

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... mouth.html
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